Using GPU with CUDA to accelerate MoM-based electromagnetic simulation of wire-grid models

Tomasz Topa; Andrzej Karwowski; Artur Noga

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2011.2144557

Using GPU with CUDA to accelerate MoM-based electromagnetic simulation of wire-grid models

Tomasz Topa
, Andrzej Karwowski
, Artur Noga

Department of Electronics; Electrical Engineering and Microelectronics (RAU/RAU11)

Silesian University of Technology

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Abstract

In this letter, a CUDA-enabled graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated implementation of the method of moments (MoM) for electromagnetic simulation of wire-grid models of arbitrary configurations of conducting surfaces and wires is presented. The solution based on the frequency-domain electric field integral equation (EFIE) discretized using piecewise-linear (triangular) functions for expansion and testing is considered. Some issues pertinent to porting a single-CPU sequential code to an inherently parallel GPU platform are addressed. The GPU numerical results for a user-created benchmark structure are backed up with comparison to CPU results. A noticeable speedup (about 6×) of the overall MoM simulation is achieved due to employing GPU.

Original language	English
Article number	5752810
Pages (from-to)	342-345
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2011.2144557
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

CUDA
GPU acceleration
graphics processing unit (GPU)
method of moments (MoM)
wire-grid modeling

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